Oklahoma 2024 2024 Regular Session

Oklahoma House Bill HB3153 Introduced / Bill

Filed 01/17/2024

                     
 
 
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STATE OF OKLAHOMA 
 
2nd Session of the 59th Legislature (2024) 
 
HOUSE BILL 3153 	By: Humphrey 
 
 
 
 
 
AS INTRODUCED 
 
An Act relating to property; limiting total land 
allowed to be owned by the state and federal 
government; limiting easements held by the federal 
government to a certain time period; limiting 
easement held by the state to a certain time period; 
providing for codification; and providing an 
effective date. 
 
 
 
 
 
BE IT ENACTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF OKLAHOMA: 
SECTION 1.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1111 of Title 60, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
The state shall limit the amount of public land owned by the 
State of Oklahoma, state agencies, and federal government to no more 
than twelve percent (12%) of the total land in the state. 
SECTION 2.     NEW LAW     A new section of law to be codified 
in the Oklahoma Statutes as Section 1112 of Title 60, unless there 
is created a duplication in numbering, reads as follows: 
A.  All easements grante d to or reserved by the federal 
government, on or after the effective date of this act, for land   
 
 
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located in the state of Oklahoma shall be for a period of thirty 
(30) years or less. 
B.  All easements granted to or reserved by the State of 
Oklahoma or state agencies shall be for a period of thirty (30) 
years or less.  Any easements held by the State of Oklahoma or any 
state agency that has been owned by t he state or any state agency 
for longer than thirty (30) years are hereby released and 
relinquished. 
SECTION 3.  This act shall become effective November 1, 2024. 
 
59-2-9120 JL 12/14/23